Gardening 2023

[PK99]

Don't think we will have home grown tomatoes and beans for tea just yet

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We are a bit ahead of you...

 

[Jody]

Nice healthy looking plants PK!

 

[Windle]

We are a bit ahead of you...

I've got a (small) greenhouse full of er, green tomatoes, of various varieties~ no sign of any ripening yet, although we are up north and up a height.

 

[Gunk]

Spent a very pleasant couple of hours this morning, popped down to the local shops on my Brompton and picked up some pastries and then tackled the garden with Mrs G, cut the grass, weeded and trimmed the tall shrubs, even cleaned the mower. Now enjoying a well deserved cup of Earl Grey

 

[biggs682]

Re positioned 2 self seeded tomato plants to make room for the spring broccoli plants that needed to go under the netting.

Picked another pot of blueberries when I cleared them what fruit is left on them the birds can have.

 

[biggs682]

First pickings of runner beans of 2023 loads more just not ready yet

 

[annedonnelly]

Is it a really good year for raspberries? I only have two summer fruiting bushes both in pots but I've been picking fruit daily for a couple of weeks now. And there are more to come.

Raspberries are my favourite summer fruit so it's the highlight of my year so far. I wish I'd weighed them as I must've eaten a few pounds by now And fingers crossed the autumn fruiting bush does well too.

Are other people getting good crops?

Mind my hanging basket strawberries are rubbish. They barely have leaves never mind fruit.

 

[Red17]

Our autumn raspberries are just starting to crop now. Never had much luck with the summer ones for some reason

 

[biggs682]

Half hour spent doing some weeding and picking up bird seed from under the feeder.
Looking after a garden is a job creation scheme in disguise

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Picked a load of blackberries and still more yet to ripen. The wasps have had a fair few, but not like last year when they took the lot. This year I have left the new shoots (which carry next years fruit) to one side instead of tying them in, which seems to have helped.
I had loads of gooseberries and tayberries earlier.
Picked the chokeberries from a bush in a pot. I still have another one to pick yet.

Other things not so great. Broad beans were OK but other seeds germinated, but then just sat there. I'd be surprised if I get a crop from my sweetcorn, as they are still way off where I'd expect them to be.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Is it a really good year for raspberries? I only have two summer fruiting bushes both in pots but I've been picking fruit daily for a couple of weeks now. And there are more to come.

Raspberries are my favourite summer fruit so it's the highlight of my year so far. I wish I'd weighed them as I must've eaten a few pounds by now And fingers crossed the autumn fruiting bush does well too.

Are other people getting good crops?

Mind my hanging basket strawberries are rubbish. They barely have leaves never mind fruit.

See above. Soft fruit has been good for me this year.

 

[Red17]

I had a surplus of spider plants last year so stuck a load in the garden as bedding.

Just been doing a bit of weeding and noticed that a couple have managed to overwinter despite the frost and snow.

 

[biggs682]

A good picking of beans this morning and still loads I could have picked

 

[pawl]

A good picking of beans this morning and still loads I could have picked

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[Red17]

Had another good fruit crop today. Loads of raspberries and blackberries, plus first ripe plumbs and greengages (my favourite fruit)